CSM59 Cities + Online
Once the little-known drama that has impressed many viewers, The Imperial Coroner shot up from 9th place last week to take second place online! Meanwhile, Esther Yu and Ryan Ding‘s romance drama Moonlight makes a splash on its premiere week as it takes the lead in 1st place. Other new dramas that have made it to the top 10 include TV drama Going Rural in 7th place and Joseph Zeng and Liang Jie’s historical romance Time Flies and You Are Here in 10th. [CORRECTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE ONLINE RANKINGS FOR THE IMPERIAL CORONER AND MOONLIGHT.]
A lot of the dramas airing on TV nowadays have themes focused on China. Jin Dong’s newly-premiered Going Rural, also known as The Smell of Warmth, pulls ahead of the rest with CSM59 ratings hitting 3.056% on its first week!! In second and third are The Cradle and Pioneers of the Era, both of which revolve around historical events.
Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard actor Allen Ren Jialun continues to take the number one spot in this week’s celebrity rankings. On the other hand, Court Lady actor Xu Kai lands in 8th while My Treasure actress Wen Qi makes it to the list in 10th place.
TV Ratings
CSM59 Cities
*The table includes primetime shows that air at 19:30, those highlighted in blue air at 22:00. **Overall rankings are for the shows airing on the same night, regardless of air time. *** Reruns are not included. **** Dramas that air on CCTV (the state television broadcaster in China) are not included.
Web Rankings
Top Dramas (7-Day)
1. Moonlight
2. The Imperial Coroner
3. Court Lady
4. Octogenarian, and The 90s
5. My Treasure
6. The Dance of the Storm
7. The Smell of Warmth
8. Miss Crow with Mr. Lizard
9. Faith Makes Great
10. Time Flies and You Are Here
Top Celebrities (7-Day)
1. Allen Ren Jialun
2. Zhang Zhehan
3. Simon Gong Jun
4. Xiao Zhan
5. Leo Wu Lei
6. Wang Yibo
7. William Chan
8. Xu Kai
9. Dilraba Dilmurat
10. Wen Qi
*Vlinkage Daily Views Index is based on view count, iQIYI Popularity, Youku Popularity, community and media discussions and Baidu search. The 7-day rankings is the calculated average from the daily index. ** Vlinkage Star Popularity is based on view count, weibo, douban, tieba, search results, etc
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Lovehj
I don’t understand this Vlinkage ranking, on Facebook someone posted that Moonlight was #1, Marcus Sam reported that Court Lady was #1 and Imperial coroner is #2. Here it reported Imperial was #1 and Moonlight was #2. You guys are using the same Vlinkage and reported differently.
Admin
Hi Lovehj – Not sure what the others are using but if it’s just the Vlinkage report, that’s actually a daily report so depending on what day you’re looking at, for example on May 20, Court Lady was #1.
Previously, Vlinkage would provide a 7-day report which is what we sourced for the weekly rankings. Since they’ve stopped doing that, we decided to still continue with the weekly rankings by calculating the average from the Vlinkage daily numbers. That being said, calculating on our own could lead to human error and we actually miscalculated this time. Based on the average, #1 should be Moonlight, #2 Imperial Coroner.
Apologies for this and hope this clarifies. thanks!
Lovehj
No needs to apologize. I’m just wondering
Db
These rankings help me find some great new dramas to follow….I abandoned ms crow and mr lizard and started watching imperial coroner instead… Amazing! Great show that I would have never thought to check out otherwise.
Baobao
Imperial Coroner is indeed amazing! Great director, great screenwriter, nicely written intelligent characters, awesome plot, and the cast are nicely chosen and acted well too! The drama doesn’t even have a good budget and is not promoted! It also has zero first line stars! I totally recomment it